Lunar New Year's Eve

The last day of the Lunar year, the night, that is, the day before the Spring Festival evening, as often in the traditional Chinese lunar calendar lunar calendar 30 or 29, it is also called the day of New Year's Eve. The last day of the year called the "Year of the addition," the evening is called "New Year's Eve." People often do not sleep all night New Year's Eve, called Shou Sui. Su Shi of "Shou Sui": "Children's is strong or not sleep, compared with vigils Huan Ye." New Year's Eve is a traditional Chinese festival, one of the most important festivals. New Year's Eve On this day, not only to clean up home away from home, get clean, but also affixed door god, couplets, paste paintings, hanging cage door, it is replaced with festive colors and patterns with new clothes.

One of the Spring Festival Legend: ao-year Shou Sui

Shou Sui, that is, the last day of the old do not sleep at night, stay up all night to greet the new year's arrival of the customs, also known as New Year's Eve Shou Sui, the common name "boil years." Explore the origins of this tradition, in the civil circulating an interesting story:

Pacific time, there is a ferocious beast, scattered in the mountain forests, people call them "years." It is the appearance of ferocious, cruel by nature, specifically water birds and beasts, scales refer insects a day, for a taste, from the kowtow to eat large insects have been living, people talk about "years" pale. Later, people gradually mastered the "Year" campaign laws, it is every 365 days in areas where he went to the crowd once I tasted fresh, and the haunt of the time after dark until dawn crowing , they will return to the mountains in the go.

Considered quasi-the "year" raging date, the people who Bianba this night as a gateway to the terrible evil, called "New Year" and come up with a complete set of New Year off approach: Every night the day, each well in advance of each household for dinner, turn off the net stove, then all the chicken loop byre firmly tied to the front and rear doors are sealed houses, hiding in the house to eat "dinner", as this dinner with the Luck uncertain implication, therefore concern and preparation very rich, in addition to family meals that have families to get together with harmony and reunion, it must be before a meal for the ancestors first, pray to the gods to bless their ancestors, have safely passed the night, eating dinner later, no one dare to sleep, sit together and chat embolden squeeze. New Year's Eve on the boil gradually formed the habit of years, Shou Sui.

Shou Sui custom arose in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, many scholars have Shou Sui Liang poetry. "Night with pairs of years old, just before dawn hours two years." People lit candles or oil lamps, night vigils, a symbol of all evil blast to drive away epidemic racing and looking forward to the new year good luck. This custom has been handed since the people.

In the ancient agricultural society, the eighth day from about the twelfth lunar month after the housewives must busily preparing the food in the New Year. Because the longer time required for curing of Lap-mei, it is necessary to prepare as soon as possible, China's many provinces have a custom flavor Curing Among them, Guangdong Province, the most famous sausages.
Steamed rice cakes, rice cakes because the homophonic "high", combined with changing tastes, almost every family has become necessary for the occasion food. The well-block style pudding yellow, white cake, symbolizing the gold, silver, ignited the meaning of New Year's fortune.

Cake tastes vary. Beijingers like to eat glutinous rice or yellow rice cake made of red dates, mince rice cakes and white rice cakes. Hebei, others prefer to add jujube cake, small red beans and mung beans and other people steamed. Northern Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and other places in the New Year, used to eating yellow rice fried rice cakes, and some still wrapped in red bean paste, such as stuffing Zaoni, Shandong, others with yellow rice, red dates steamed rice cakes. North cakes with sweet-based, or steam, or deep-fried, it was also just stick candy. South cake is both savory and sweet, such as Suzhou and Ningbo, the cake, to rice production, light taste. In addition to steaming, deep-fried, it also can be sliced fried or soup. Sweet glutinous rice flour cakes with added sugar, lard, rose, osmanthus, mint, Su-rong and other ingredients, fine craftsmanship, can be directly coated with egg white fried or steamed food.

Chinese New Year is called the night before the real reunion night of wandering away from home must be far behind thousands of miles to drive home the whole family sitting together to New Year's dumplings, dumplings and noodles first, the practice is made dumpling skin, and then bags on the pie, and stuffing the contents of all sorts, all kinds of meat, eggs, seafood, seasonal vegetables can into the pie, and orthodox eat dumplings, is cooked with water, picked up the tune after a vinegar, minced garlic, sesame oil of stained with soy sauce for seasoning food. There are deep-fried dumplings, baked dumplings (fried dumpling), etc. eat. And the surface because the word "and" is "together" means; dumplings of "dumplings" and "intercourse" homophonic, "together" and "stock" meaning there together, so a symbol of reunion with the dumplings Acacia; also to obtain year-old handover of Italy, is very auspicious; In addition, the dumplings because the shape of ingot, New Year, dumplings, but also with the "Good Fortune" auspicious meaning. A size of the dumplings together, then spring, enjoyable.

Annual Lunar New Year's Eve is the evening of the last day of the twelfth lunar month, which with the Chinese New Year (Holiday movies) connected end to end. "New Year's Eve" in the "subject to" word "to; Yi; alternate" means New Year's Eve means "the best years of age on the poor," people should be a new addition to Jioubu, there is the old-year-old to this, except in the coming year, the other new ones-year-old refers to the lunar calendar year last night. Therefore, activities during the inter Jioubu around the new Prayer-centered.

Zhou, Qin period will do each year when the palace to hold the "big Nuo" ritual, drums expel pestilence of ghosts, known as "by addition," after the day before New Year's Eve, also known as a small addition to that Xiaonian Ye; New Year's Eve as a great addition to, that is, Danian Ye.

New Year's Eve the year most people recall with nostalgia a night. New Year's Eve, the most lively, Xuan Tian, Tianyi discredit the children or teenagers, young man, already holding incense, East soon as the West a ring to sensational fireworks came, bold amplification of Pau, young one hand clutching his ears, leaned far point, other children his hands clutching his ears, intense and anxiously waiting ... .... Faced with this situation, even into old age also can remember.